Usage Note 13526: Clarification of MIXED=YES in SAS 9.x SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files
When using MIXED=YES as an option on the LIBNAME statement with the
excel engine or as an optional statement in PROC IMPORT with the
parameter DBMS=Excel when reading an Excel file that contains mixed
data into SAS 9.x, the MIXED= is handled by the MS Jet/Excel engine.
It's behavior is constrained by the setting in the PC's Registry for the
number of rows scanned/evaluated to determine column types. The default
setting for the number of rows scanned/evaluated is 8.
If there is mixed data in those 8 rows and the SAS code includes
MIXED=YES, a character data type is assigned and the numeric data is
automatically converted to character data.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Date Modified: | 2004-11-12 13:02:49 |
| Date Created: | 2004-10-04 13:56:20 |
